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Bullaun stone

Meetings, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bullaun stone, Meetings, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Meetings
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.88510, -6.23267
SMR number
WI035-048----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This bullaun stone, known as St Kevin's cup, is located in a small landscaped park at the confluence of the Avonbeg and Avonmore rivers ('Meeting of the Waters'), 30m E of the statue of Sir Thomas Moore. A roughly squared granite boulder with a modern looking fracture along its E side (L 0.7m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.35m) contains a bullaun slightly off-centre towards the N side (diam 0.36m; D 0.14m). (Price 1959, 164; Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, 159, No. 1002)

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 31 October 2012

References

Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. (comp). 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Price, L. 1959 Rock-basins or “bullauns”, at Glendalough and elsewhere. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 161-88.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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